Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 12:09:43 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: lore <lore@phile.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeouts in telnet connections Message-ID: <19990509120942.F12236@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au> References: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au>
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On Sun, 09 May 1999 at 11:56:40 +1000, lore wrote: > I discovered this morning that I had 2 open telnet connections from > my box to another local machine. (I was called out last night and > forgot to close them before I left). Today I've been searching > several resources for a way to enable some type of timeout mechanism > so the connection is disconnected by the host after a period of > idleness (I'm thinking 60 minutes at the moment). Take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/idled. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@blues.ghis.net ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Global Hosting Inet Svcs http://www.ghis.net/ / \ The personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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